Movies Similar to As Not to Fly the Smoke

Wannabe Courageous(2019)

Omar marries Nesma despite her father's objection. After the wedding ceremony, they're attacked by unknown men. During her escape, Nesma is injured. Awakening from a coma, she refuses to see Omar because she doesn't feel safe with him. He goes to a psychiatrist to help him solve the problem.

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Appointment with Satan(1955)

Ragab is a doctor struggling with his financial life, he meets Nabil and discovers that he is the devil himself. They have a deal to make him the best doctor ever.

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The President's Chef(2008)

Metwali, a simple chef, gets the chance to work at the presidential palace. The president starts referring to him to learn about the lives of his people, so he tells him all about the citizen's life from jokes to social and political conditions. which is seen as a threat by some people.

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Omar 2000(2000)

Omar decides to emigrate to America as his 30th birthday approaches, but first he wants to get revenge on the people who have gotten in his way.

4.3

The Bathhouse of Malatily(1973)

The film is an adaptation of the novel Samar Habib by Ismåeel Walieddin. author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.

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Have We Met Before(2008)

Sara's wife Nelly Karim reveals her husband's betrayal of Amr Mamdouh and leaves her for her friend Dalia Caroline Khalil, who is in crisis with her boyfriend Akram Mohammed Sulaiman. Sara enters new worlds where she meets Hisham. Saxophone player as well as Abdellatif "Hassan Hosni" fashion designer Will Sarah respond to the betrayal of her husband ... And do you overcome Dalia crisis?

2.5

A Hero from Upper Egypt(1991)

Antiquities dealer Heridi asks his nephew Jaber to deliver a gift not knowing that it contains a rare statue that he plans to sell. Jaber is chased by two gangs to seize the statue, Aziz's gang sends Safi to seduce Jaber but she decides to take the statue for herself.

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Lila Says(2005)

Based on a controversial French novel, Lila Says tells the story of a quiet young poet named Chimo who develops a crush on the pretty, blond Lila, a girl who recently moved into his Arab ghetto with her aunt. When the leader of a rival gang also falls for Lila, the ensuing love triangle initiates a journey of sexual discovery -- and sets off a chain of devastating events.

6.5

The Treasure: Truth & Imagination(2017)

The events revolve around three eras: the Pharaonic era, the Mamluk era, and the first half of the 20th century. The events revolve around corruption and the power of some clerics over the ages to power and false and bad dealings with the people, and how to involve religion in politics in order to obtain positions. That there are clerics deliberately coloring and counterfeiting in this period of time to be the strongest and maintain their positions.

6.8

Ali's Wedding(2017)

After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl.

6.9

Antar, The Fourth Grandson of Shaddad(2017)

The grandson of Antar Abassi enters a fierce battle with Asad Alrijal, and tries to beat him with all his strength in order to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in the tribe.

4.2

Immobilia Crime Story(2019)

Kamel Helmy is a famous writer, in the late 1940s, living in Cairo, in the famous Imobilia building, after the death of his wife and the departure of his children from home. He suffers from loneliness and schizophrenia. One day he calls a girl named Samah who had befriended Facebook in an attempt to ease his isolation.

5.5

Excuse My French(2014)

A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he's a Muslim.

7.1

The Money(2019)

Sief is a conman who is hired by the beautiful rich woman, Hala, to help her get her money back from another conman. Their relationship gets them entangled in a web of deceit as they start questioning their stances regarding love, friendship, and the meaning of life.

5.7

Scarecrow(2019)

The story revolves around a grandfather who stole a rare masterpiece belonging to the late singer (Umm Kulthum) in his youth, but after years passes, he finds himself chased by those who want to have this piece, which makes him resort to the help of his only grandson.

4.6

The Thief of Baghdad(2020)

In an atmosphere of suspense and excitement, Yousef, Khaled, and Nadia embark on a journey to locate the tomb of Alexander the Great, which has been sought by everyone for years.

5.4

Renegades of Europe(2022)

A wife gives birth to sextuplets, forcing the husband to sell three of their children due to poverty. When the wife finds out, she decides to leave her husband and travel abroad and many conflicts arise between siblings in the future.

5.5

The Tale of Three Girls(1968)

Three women each have their own ambitions and aspirations. The first dreams of fame and fortune and meets a rich, married man she attempts to court. The second is a secretary with designs on her boss, even though he too is married. Having learned from her friends' experiences, the third takes an altogether different path.

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The Spider(2022)

A dangerous drug dealer, who manages to manufacture new drugs, sells them, and falls into many problems and chases by the police.

5.0

The Beach House(2016)

Four people from an Arab generation roaming over the ruins of ideologies, causes and virtues of their predecessors. It portrays their intellectual and emotional nonchalance about what is happening around them in their daily lives and relationships. In a house whose architecture is a sixties' experiment in mixing modern and Islamic architecture, a stone and concrete cube suspended over a rocky shore bashed by the waves of the Mediterranean, by famed Iraqi architect Refaat Chaderji, we spend a night with four characters whose non-stop conversations and peculiar actions reflect the void and chaos they are living in.

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